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Cloudera Administrator on premises Exam Guide

Audience

The exam tests the skills and knowledge required by system administrators to successfully manage and maintain Cloudera on premises.

Exam Details

  • Number of questions: 80

  • Duration: 90 minutes

  • Pass Score: 60

  • Delivery: online, proctored

    • Please review the system requirements to enable online, proctored testing through QuestionMark

  • Allowed resources: none. 

    • You may not use reference materials, white papers, user guides or any other resources during your exam.

  • Support: if you need help, please email us

Cloudera Skills & Knowledge Measured

This exam measures the skills and knowledge topics listed in Table 1. below. The weighting of each topic is also listed.

Topic WEIGHT (% of exam)

Understand and Describe Cloudera on Premises Architecture

  • Architecture for Cloudera Data Platform
  • Architecture for Cloudera Manager
  • Design for Security
  • Planning for Deployment
  • Isolated Network Requirements

 

14%

Planning High Availability

  • Configure Availability
  • Run Backups
  • Multi-Tenant Application
12.5%

Installation and Deployment

  • Install Cloudera Manager
  • Install Core Services
  • Install Parcels
  • Deploy Cloudera Runtime

 

12.5%

Manage and Operate Clusters

  • Work with Cloudera Manager
  • Configuration Management
  • Troubleshooting issues and work with log files
  • Use Cloudera Manager REST API
12.5%

Security Configuration

  • Configure Auto-TLS
  • Install and Configure Kerberos
  • Configure Users and Groups
  • Encrypt Network Traffic
12.5%

Governance

  • Install Atlas and Configure Atlas Classifications
  • Install and use Apache Ranger
  • Manage Risk
10%

Capacity Management

  • Inspect and Extend Capacity
  • Maintain Host Nodes
10%

Cluster Maintenance

  • Upgrade Cloudera Manager and Cloudera Runtime
  • Applying Patches
6%

Administrating HDFS and YARN

  • Administrating HDFS
  • Administrating YARN
10%

Table 1: Exam topics and weighting

Other Skills & Knowledge

Although, not directly tested on this exam, it is assumed that the candidate also possess the prerequisite skills and knowledge listed below that may help answer exam questions:

  • Linux system management
  • Network security e.g. SSL/TLS
  • User authentication, authorization e.g. kerberos, LDAP, SQL,  etc.
  • Relational database management

Suggested Training

Although optional, the Cloudera Educational Services courses listed below cover some of the same topics as listed in the table above. Real world, hands-on experience is highly recommended whether you participate in training or not.

  • Admin-230 Administering Cloudera on premises
  • Admin-332 Securing Cloudera on premises

Helpful documentation

Cloudera on Premises 7.1.9 

 

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